Over the past week, not much has gone the Phillies way. They lost five games in a row, including a 10-1 shellacking at the hands of the Cubs on Friday night. But on Saturday afternoon, everything came up Phillies, and they snapped that losing streak in a big way, handing the Cubs a shellacking of their own, by a score of 12-3.
You could tell this might be the Phillies’ day when they did a most curious thing in the first inning: They got three runners on base and brought all three of them home with a home run.